Scarab Beetle Pupa from Serbia

Subject: Uknown bug pupa/nymph Location: South-eastern europe/Serbia July 7, 2016 6:41 am I found this bug pupa/nymph buried under ground in a group of four. They are filled with some white, almost milk like fluid and are found few inches below ground. It looks familiar to me, but I am not sure what it actually is, so I’m want to know is this bug dangerous and can it do any damage to the crops in the garden. Signature: MD

Scarab Beetle Pupa

Dear MD, We are very confident that this is the Pupa of a Scarab Beetle in the family Scarabaeidae and our first thought is that it must be the Pupa of a Cockchafer since that is the most common European Scarab Beetle submitted to our site, however, based on this image posted to the Gardening & Landscaping Stack Exchange and this image posted to the HYPP Zoology page, after clicking the link, we believe you have a different species. According to Research Gate: “A total of 178 species, 83 genera, 15 tribes, and 7 subfamilies of the family Scarabaeidae are recorded from Serbia.” This image of a pupa of a female European Rhinoceros Beetle, Oryctes nasicornis ondrejanus, from BioLib looks much closer.